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UAE planned to use climate talks to make oil deals
LONDON, UK, 27 November 2023 (BBC) - Leaked briefing documents reveal the UAE planned to use its role as the host of UN climate talks as an opportunity to discuss oil and gas deals with 15 nations. The UN body responsible for the COP28 summit told the BBC hosts were expected to act without bias or self-interest. |
Climate change is reshaping way of life on Pacific islands
KIOA, Fiji, 27 November 2023 (Guardian) - Like islands across the Pacific, climate change is reshaping life in Kioa. The tiny Fijian island has experienced increasingly frequent and more intense cyclones, disrupting crops. Fish, a staple of the local diet, live further out from the shore. In the past, residents would go fishing on the coast; now they must head out to deeper waters to get their catch. Corals have bleached and some fish no longer survive in the reef. |
Sea urchin in Sicily at risk of extinction
PALERMO, Italy, 27 November 2023 (Guardian) - It is one of Sicily’s most popular dishes: spaghetti ai ricci di mare, or sea urchin spaghetti. However, this culinary delicacy is leading to their gradual disappearance from local waters, and last week researchers said it could soon become extinct if urgent conservation policies were not implemented. |
AOSIS preparatory meeting for COP28
DUBAI, UAE, 26 November 2023 (SPREP) - As thousands of delegates descend upon Dubai for UNFCCC COP28, Samoa as the Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), has called for unity and solidarity from the AOSIS membership to ensure the fight for a 1.5 degree world remains alive. |
AOSIS preparatory meeting for COP28
DUBAI, UAE, 26 November 2023 (SPREP) - As thousands of delegates descend upon Dubai for UNFCCC COP28, Samoa as the Chair of the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), has called for unity and solidarity from the AOSIS membership to ensure the fight for a 1.5 degree world remains alive. |
Madagascar president re-elected in contested poll
LONDON, UK, 25 November 2023 (BBC) - Madagascar's incumbent President Andry Rajoelina has won a third term, following a disputed election boycotted by the opposition and its supporters. He won 59% of the vote to defeat his two closest rivals but the election recorded a voter turnout of 46%, considered to be the lowest in the island country's history. |
The rise of undersea champagne
LONDON, UK, 25 November 2023 (Guardian) - Like so many of the world’s best innovations, it began by accident. In 2010, a group of divers in Finland’s Åland archipelago came across the wreck of a ship that sank in 1852 and were surprised to find 145 bottles of champagne 160ft below the surface. Even more surprisingly, the bottles were still full and tasted – in the words of a professor of food biochemistry – “incredible – I have never tasted such a wine in my life”. |
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